person
Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus
Pompey
also: Pompey, Gnaeus Pompey, Cn. Pompeius
Roman general and rival of Caesar, defeated at Pharsalus and murdered in Egypt (48 BC). Seneca argues an earlier death would have spared him his fall.
Reading notes
- Consolation to Marcia §14 Gnaeus Pompey
Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, Caesar's rival, defeated at Pharsalus and murdered in Egypt in 48 BC.
- Consolation to Polybius §15 Pompeys
Pompey the Great and his sons; the family Seneca cites as denied even the mercy of falling in a single ruin.
- On Benefits §4.30.2 the other Pompeii
The descendants and kin of Pompey the Great (Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus), advanced by the surviving prestige of the 'one man' whose very ruin lifted his family high.
- On Benefits §5.16.4 Gnaeus Pompeius
Pompey the Great (106–48 BC), three times consul and triumphator, partner in the First Triumvirate that reduced the republic to 'the benefit of servitude.'
- On the Shortness of Life §5.1 Pompeys
Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (Pompey the Great), the 'doubtful friend' among whom Cicero was tossed.
- On the Shortness of Life §13.6 Pompey
Pompey the Great, who staged the notorious slaughter of eighteen elephants in the circus (55 BC).
- On Mercy §1.9 Gnaeus Pompey
Pompey the Great (106–48 BC), Caesar's rival; his grandson Cinna's noble blood made the pardon the more conspicuous.
- On the Firmness of the Wise Man §1.3 Pompeys
Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (106–48 BC) and his like; 'the Pompeys and the Caesars' stands for the great dynasts above whom Cato rose in worth though not in office.
- On Anger §2.23 Gnaeus Pompey
Pompey the Great (106–48 BC), Caesar's rival in the civil war; the letters addressed to him were burned by Caesar.
- On Providence §3.14 Pompey
Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (106–48 BC), member of the first triumvirate and Caesar's rival; one of the powerful men whose enmity tested Cato.
- On Tranquility of Mind §8.6 Pompey
Pompey the Great (106--48 BC), here the proverbial measure of wealth and power that his freedman is said to have exceeded; in XVI he reappears among the good men slain by their own clients.
- Moral Letters to Lucilius §1.4.7 Pompey
Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (106–48 BC), the great general; after defeat at Pharsalus he fled to Egypt, where he was murdered on the orders of the boy-king Ptolemy XIII and his eunuch advisor — proof of fortune's reach over the mighty.
- Moral Letters to Lucilius §8.71.9 Gnaeus Pompey
Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (106--48 BC), leader of the senatorial side against Caesar; routed at Pharsalus and murdered soon after on landing in Egypt.
- Moral Letters to Lucilius §104.29 Gnaeus Pompey
Pompey the Great (106–48 BC), Caesar's rival in the civil war, defeated at Pharsalus and murdered in Egypt.
- Natural Questions §4.pr.21 Pompey
Cnaeus Pompeius Magnus, whose fortune Sicily "bent" in the civil wars.